Hola from S60 Summit

Well that's not completely true .. the conference starts properly tomorrow but I'm here in Barcelona getting ready. I love travelling to new places and getting my expectations of what it will be like completely thrown out the window! Very different to what I imagined, but it's a great city. Did the quick tour of the city yesterday (photos here) and was blown away by the Gaudi buildings - he was a genuis to be sure to have been able to design such weird and wonderful architecture.

Anyway, I'll have more to report on work stuff tomorrow. This afternoon I'm doing a video interview with Nokia (along with the other developers here) about the applications and products we make, and then the fun begins with a Forum Nokia dinner tonight.

Nokia Web Kit Rewards

Right now if you sign up on the Forum Nokia APAC site, you can also enter the Forum Nokia Developer Program Promotion!

• 1st Prize - N95 8GB
• 2nd Prize - Nokia 6110
• 3rd Prize - Nokia 5610

Click here to find out more information.

See Nokia Web Run-Time at webDU 2008

As part of the always-awesome webDU conference this year, I'm very pleased to see Nokia not just sponsoring the event (which is great on its own), but also presenting on their WRT (Web Run-Time) technology. WRT can of course contain Flash Lite content, becasue essentially is a browser-based experience, and Flash Lite has long been able to be viewed through the S60 browser. But WRT is ultimately based on HTML, Javascript and CSS to create installable widgets for the S60 platform.

Gary Chan from Nokia will be presenting "Beyond Browsing - Web 2.0 goes Mobile" and showing web developers the opportunities to extend their reach into mobile widgets on the WRT platform by using their existing skills.

And as part of my session ("The Not-so Ancient Art of Mobile Flash Video") I might even get time to show the Flash Lite 3.0 video app we build incorporate into a WRT widget.

Moket at S60 Summit, Barcelona

I'll be travelling this weekend to Barcelona where I'll be attending the S60 Summit next week, along with many other mobile industry players. I'll be going to demonstrate some of Moket's Flash Lite applications on the Nokia stand in the expo pavilion. If you're at the Summit then please drop by to say hello! I know Ugur and the guys from Kuneri will also be there showcasing their products.

It's my first time in Barcelona (and Spain) and I'm really looking forward to it. Will be blogging more info and pics, so stay tuned!

Moket games on Mobile Hotdog

Moket have launched a new partnership with Mobile Hotdog (based out of Asia) with a couple of games being made available on their website - Eat Them Alive and Jon Burgerman's Sausage Smackdown. Both games are available on a (limited) free trial basis before you can purchase the game.

If you are interested in the Moket Content Network evaluating and potentially distributing your own games through this channel, please let me know.

New Flash Lite 3,0 Devices

The new Nokia 6600 slide , 6600 fold, and the 3600 slide Flash Lite 3.0 devices are up on Forum Nokia devices page. For those of you who haven't been there before, it's a great part of the FN site for checking on device specifications. I actually subscribe to the RSS feed so that new devices come into Google Reader when they hit the site (my tip of the week ;)

These are all a lot sexier than the original Nokia 6600 (one of the first colour screen phones I owned!).

In the wake of recent annoucements regarding an approach to fixing certain issues with Flash Lite 3.0 (see last post), it seems that the sooner it happens then better, with new devices rolling out now with more frequency.

Fixing Flash Lite 3

Didn't know it was broken? Well, depends on who you talk to I guess. Even back when FL 3 was in beta, there were discussions flying around to do with the new security model that Flash Lite was "inheriting" from Flash Player 8, and that essentially we would find that backwards compatibility for many FL apps would be broken. For a recently posted developer's perspective, read Ugur's post here.

The MaD team have always been listening and through Bill have announced that there are some fixes coming along shortly. Aaprt from potentially fixing the issue Flash Lite developers have had with Flash Lite 3, it demonstrates Adobe's ability to change as a result of the combined community voice. It takes a lot to change, especially in the mobile world where the device vendors control such a large part of the ecosystem, so this is not an insignificant announcement. Thanks Adobe and MaD team.